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Up Coming Reviews

Artistic Pursuits (coming soon)

The Madsen Method (in process)

Sue Gregg High School Cooking Curriculum (in process)

For links to completed reviews click here.

November 10th, 2009

All I Can Say is, “Thank You!”

Wow and thank you to those of you who nominated Raising Olives for the 2009 Homeschool blog awards!

Raising Olives has been nominated in 4 categories and voting is now open:

Best Homeschool Mom Blog
Best NEW Homeschool Blog
Best SUPER Homeschooler
Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog

If you’re  a regular reader you may click on the links above if you’d like [...]

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October 28th, 2009

How to Get Giveaways and Product Reviews for Your Blog

Katrina who blogs at  A Mother’s Heart wondered, “(H)ow do get to offer things to your readers and how to you get places to send you things to try out?”

This is a great question and one that I wondered about for a while.

THIS IS IMPORTANT:  Companies want you to talk about their products or [...]

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October 8th, 2009

‘Cause I Know You Wanted to Know

If you search “olives” on Baidu, (a Chinese search engine that ranks 9th in Alexa’s overall internet rankings ) “Raising Olives” is the first website that comes up.

How do I know you wonder?  No, I don’t read Chinese, so I’ve not been spending my free time surfing Baidu. I just realized that Raising Olives has [...]

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October 1st, 2009

BlogFrog Launches Premium Membership

As a BlogFrog Community Leader I’ve been in on a secret, but today I get to share it with you.  I’m sure that you’ve noticed BlogFrog widgets around the internet.  Some, like mine, contain a link to a discussion forum where you can ask questions and talk with other blog readers, others show you recent [...]

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September 24th, 2009

You Asked: Cloth Diapers, Potty Training and Cross Country

Ready for some more Q &A?

If not, I apologize, it’s the only thing I have enough brain power to post.  Today we bought 170 pounds of chicken, 100 pounds of ground beef and 30 pounds of roast in addition to a hundred cans of tomato sauce, dozens of pounds of cheese and much more, over [...]

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